New England Biz Law Update

Plaintiffs are filing suits against AI developers at a quick pace, arguing that AI really creates nothing new but merely reads and copies billions of other peoples’ protected works from the internet. Using these works, and in reaction to a ...

It’s too early to assess the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples, according to some legal experts. “The boundaries of ...

Even though a university dean and provost made comments about a professor’s retirement plans, those comments, without more, were not “direct evidence” of age discrimination. The decision is Palmer v. Liberty University. Plaintiff Eva Palmer sued Liberty University, alleging age ...

As a commercial real estate lawyer, I understand that my clients often rely on their financial analysts and their projections, forecasts and assumptions to determine whether to invest in a real estate venture. Whether a lawyer or a nonlawyer, it ...

Where the record showed an employee’s position was eliminated because of a need to downsize and because he scored the lowest of three sales managers on a decision matrix, a federal trial court in Virgnia concluded that his age discrimination ...

An employer’s motion to compel arbitration of a former employee’s discrimination claim should be denied because there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the plaintiff agreed to arbitration, a federal court in Michigan has held. Blue Cross ...

If you ask one of the leading artificial intelligence chatbots, ChatGPT, if you should rely on it to draft a construction contract, it responds that it is “highly recommended to hire a construction attorney rather than relying solely on ChatGPT ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous decision in United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., rejecting efforts to redefine the knowledge prong of the False Claims Act to disregard a defendant’s subjective knowledge or belief. The decision ...

There is nary an industry where artificial intelligence (AI) is not a matter of conversation recently, wealth management included. “It’s a topic that’s everywhere and is affecting every industry,” said Dana Vosburgh, a certified financial planner and managing director of ...

A federal court in Virginia has conditionally certified a class of bartenders and barbacks who claimed a rock festival violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, and Virginia law. The defendants argued that class certification wasn’t warranted because the ...